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Re: ----- "Correct: you'd have to largely throw out belief in modern medicine to be on the anti-vaccination side." ----- Not any more than we would have to give up driving because someone made a dangerous and poorly-assembled car that became popular through deceptive advertisements and rigged legislation. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lawrence-solomon/merck-whistleblowers_b_5881914.html Probably best to throw out "belief" in anything - especially the altruism of huge corporations when it comes to your health and well-being. -VonKrankenhaus.

Re: ----- "Consider the sources of information and follow the best science." ----- http://e-patients.net/archives/2012/03/former-nejm-editors-on-the-corruption-of-american-medicine-ny-times.html -VonKrankenhaus

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1164794 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4065774/pdf/BMRI2014-247218.pdf http://www.naturalnews.com/048422_flu_shot_scientific_fraud_controlled_trials.html http://www.naturalnews.com/036328_Merck_mumps_vaccine_False_Claims_Act.html# http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "No one needs to assassinate antivacciners, its been debunked already, imo and thankfully for most society." ----- What is it that has been "debunked"? -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "So, then show me God. Point him out. Prove his existence by logic. The universe needed no creator. The universe is and has always been. No thing created it." ----- If the universe exists, it will cease to exist. If it had a beginning, it will have an end. But uni-verse means One, and infinity equals zero. The "Creator" is not a thing, because Creation is Infinite. You are that, and so is every other Thing. The source of the Finite is the Infinite. Subdividing One, we are talking in the realm of Fractions. -VonKrankenhaus

Heaven - Spirit - all light Living Beings - Air - half light/half dark Earth - Womb - all dark Chinese way is to say "Heaven/Man/Earth". We are existing between Heaven and Earth. From this basic observation we can discover what sleep is. Is there a ratio of Heaven/Earth in terms of force or energy that could be used to understand what is happening in between? -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "However I also got a 2 week crash after I stopped taking the tincture" ----- Always consider homeostasis. Whatever one does or takes, our bodily systems will attempt to balance - often by increasing secretions and processes that would do the opposite. When we remove the initial impetus, the thing we were taking, it will take the homeostasis functions a while to adjust, and initially there will be a potentially great imbalance - depending on the extremity of what had been taken. This is why psychiatric drugs actually make worse the same conditions they are supposed to treat. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I think the situation is far worse in countries with a focus on private healthcare, the poor die and the rich can afford to live." ----- Iatrogenic Harm from "health care" is the #1 cause of death right now. There's never been a better time to not be able to afford it. -VonKrankenhaus

Excellent topic. There have been many interesting uses of Pine (various species) in cultivation, historically. The most famous, but less interesting, one is self-mummification using certain pine resins. City people can initially be allergic to pine pollen in the air because they have such little experience of it. Living outdoors in the forest, we sleep in it and play in it all day. -VonKrankenhaus

In this "air realm" we experience half-light/half-dark. In the "womb realm" we experienced all dark. The "spirit realm" is all light. We need to understand what sleep is and why we sleep before we decide how much of it we need. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- ",,,especially if a man is practicing Semen retention; has all of this stored up Jing in the wrong manner, blocked, well his energy becomes more powerful, but it is blocked.. and because it's blocked it manfiests in all types of things. Fear, paranoia, aggression, anger.. and then his reality becomes a Reflection of that. I, for without a shadow of a doubt have experienced all of this." ----- I do not think that what is described is the effect of "stored up jing" and "blocked" energy. I think it is a natural hormonal transition that is a bit extreme, and the extremity of it may be related to bodily resources, diet, and lifestyle. Most married men experience something like this for a few days each month. Testosterone, oxytocin - look into what the various hormones related to sexual function do. It is profound. Of course, qigong and yoga are excellent ways of gaining both awareness and control of hormonal responses. As is changing one's diet to something more like that which human beings traditionally have survived with, and not so much the sickness-inducing food pranks that people have been sold in this modern era. Bad food and medications can mess up hormonal functioning and also make qigong and yoga training almost moot. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I need to strengthen my entire region down there, not just the thighs, to prevent any energy leakage at the area. I started the Jade Egg pactice several times, but I always had to stop because of yet another urinary infection - I did boil the egg before-after, but I've been prone to such infections, so I must find a method that doesn't need an egg." ----- If you are experiencing repeated UTIs, the issue is most likely not the egg itself. One thing to try is salt sitting (hip) baths made with very warm water and a handfull of sea salt. Do this before and after jade egg practice. And be sure to urinate afterwards also, as this naturally flushes the urethra.. Be meticulous with cleaning after using the tiolet, as the bacteria that cause UTIs are often from feces. Also, wearing underwear made of synthetic or non-breathable fibers can add to the problem by functioning as an incubator for the bacteria. Organic cotton might be better. -VonKrankenhaus

There is a book detailing many (japanese) Do In (Tao Yin) exercises - "The Book of Do In" by Michio Kushi, 1979. Not much of Tao Yin that I have learned long ago has been what I would classify as "physical conditioning" exercises, per se, but there are some things in the book above that might be. -VonKrankenhaus

It is very good to become increasingly aware of how things are connected, and how mind is functioning. These things are often not used or emphasized in modern activities, but if one follows these into increasing connection, one can more and more be reacting to connections that others do not see, and this can become a problem for some people. But some do develop a functional and integrative way of using this awareness. That's the synchronization to find. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "Look up the thread called "Living Proof Qigong Works" or something like that." ----- Yes, that is a good one too. I started this thread after reading many many pages of debates and even arguments about concepts, methods, techniques, fairy tales, lineages, and so forth. I became interested to see "the other side" of these kind of things - to see what people are actually experiencing and achieving from their various trainings. I very much appreciate what people have been posting in this thread (and others). =VonKrankenhaus

http://www.coolfusion.org/ -VonKrankenhaus

Yin Yang are relative and inseperable. Nothing is entirely or exclusively Yin or Yang. This is like two sides of one coin - if have Yin on one side, you have Yang on other side, and it is not possible to have a one-sided coin. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I am trying to find the proper practice to channel my "Chi" and rejuvinate my body to feel "cloud-like" if that makes sense. I want the inner strength as well as outter glow that comes from Orgasm.. but without orgasm.. I do not want to be dependent on carnal desire to feel "Normalized" rather able to do it through spiritual means." ----- Why do you want these things? What has it been that brought these things to mind in the first place? -VonKrankenhaus

Refined sweeteners, commercial soda, alcohol, refined and fractioned foods, and most drugs and chemicals - these can all diminish psychic ability. Stopping these altogether and starting with whole and real food - within a year or two, psychic ability will improve very much, even without any specific trainings. Hard work and hard circumstances can also improve intuition and psychic ability. If your life becomes in danger, then you automatically looking beyond immediate place and situation - this also improves psychic ability. Modern brainwashing - educations and media (and even the houses and buildings) - all of this is counterproductive. If we sent someone away for 12-16+ years to an "education facility" - they will be very different than they might have been in nature with real human beings. They will be "bionized" (biological becomes crippled and requires artificial efforts to maintain) and "psychonized" (made robotic in thinking functions, automated associations, NLP, etc). None of this education and media is really about good human living or accurate about human functioning or potential. It's there simply to limit these to a managable level. Once we can regain human functioning by changing food to real and living ways to real human ways, then exercises can work. Most of these will be about gaining sensitivity to "vibrations". These exercises and trainings can be elaborate and take many years, but all basic qigong is good start. Beyond basic, there are things like darkness training to increase sensitivity to certain parts of vibrational spectrum. But all trainings are only as functional as the human being doing them. The midbrain is where vibrations are processed - light responses, magnetic sensing, etc. Each blood cell also maintains a polarity with vibration as iron, hemoglobin. Minerals recieve vibrations - this is how a crystal radio works. This is why demineralizing foods/drinks and foods that cause expansion in tissues wreck accurate psychic ability. This is why qigong masters who say to eat anything and it doesn't matter, are actually stunting their own progress and that of people who believe them. That advice became null and void when the modern era began. Anyone doubting this can prove it by eating only candy bars, or only ham, for one year. There is not one cell in a human body not made of food. What food in what environment equals how it was made. The brain reading this = 100% made of food. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "My question: Who has achieved anything vauable (I'd like to specify: Visible, verifiable) from ANY teacher? Who has learned to successfully heal with Chi? From whom? Who has achieved the ability to knock out opponents (sparring or real) using Chi power? Which method? Who is able to send "Chi Balls" that really have an effect? How? Who is able to move or destroy objects using Chi? Or who is at least able making his body sweat in a chilly surrounding through meditation?" ----- These might not really be the best benchmark of progress. I did start a thread titled "What Results do People Here Have From Training?" where some people have posted results: http://thedaobums.com/topic/38454-what-results-do-people-here-have-from-training/ I am interested to know what people think are good achievements from qigong and other trainings. -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "It would be great if this post might continue to be what the original poster intended rather than a derailment to the myopic defensive radar screens that engage us in tensed false reality and a view of the world that disengages us from the magnificent reality of the tremendous and ever changing energies that are not in any way shape or form staid and stagnant." ----- I find this a bizzare response. "Myopic defensive radar screens"? "Magnificent reality of the tremendous"? But that's fine with me. I did find it amazing that they have those execution vans to harvest organs so efficiently from lawbreakers. And the entertainment industry is the biggest, most impressive weapon ever devised and deployed. Those are things that no other country did so well yet. Or, is this about "nice" things - like what country is making the best and nice tasty muffins and horseshoes? France didn't really invent the things in the OP, and I'm not sure they are doing them better. And really - "countries" are imaginary constructs. Did I discuss the imaginary in the wrong way? ----- "The world is perfect,,," ----- If so, then which part of it should not be discussed like any other? Do "countries" only do some small part of that? Which part of "perfect" are they doing, and which part are they not doing? -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "I'm thinking France for its sense of stye, savoir faire and vivaciousness." ----- I must've been to a different "France". ----- "What other things do some countries do really well?" ----- China now has those "execution vans" that take a person right after sentencing, strap them down, kill them, harvest their organs, drop those off at a hospital, then dump the body at a crematorium. And the US has its massive "Entertainment Industry" that has rendered more people useless than the atomic bomb. -VonKrankenhaus

The joints, tendons, etc need to open up and relax so that blood and lymph can flow. Part of this is postural, and there are "stages" of most people doing lotus position. First is being able to do it at all. Even though legs and torso are "in" position, internally everything is squashed into what can be a new way of positioning from usual and habitual postures. Sitting positions then start adjusting. One might seek out and do stretching or other activities that increase the mobility and openness of the joints and muscles. These help. And in sitting, body will start adjusting little by little, to new posture. Another issue can be some organ contraction that make free positioning difficult. For example, tight kidneys, or blockages in kidneys, can cause numbness in legs that can be made worse by sitting in meditation. These organs meridians running through legs. If kidney tightness is due to salt, one thing to try is take a whole watermelon, large, and boil it with a heaping teaspoon of salt, boiling down to about a quart of somewhat thick paste. Take 1 spoonful of this 3 times/day. Also massage kidney point on bottom of foot to help dissolve stagnation. If liver is tight, stop meat for a while, cut down heavy fats, and look into the oil and lemon flush for liver/gallbladder. Of course, there are many more elaborate ways to address hardness and stagnation in organs - like acupuncture, tui na, shiatsu, and qigong exercises, etc. Most require professional practitioner or teacher, but all good. -VonKrankenhaus

Might be some ideas you could use: http://www.groin-hernia.com/herniabible/craig.html -VonKrankenhaus

Re: ----- "In most parts of the developed world now, wheat is GMO, sprayed with glysophate. The GMO wheat survives this process and then those chemicals make it to market. Corn has a similar fate, as does soy. Sugar does as well, unless it's organic sugar. Sometimes gluten free products still cause a gut reaction because they were made using GMO sugar, from sugar beets or cane sprayed with glysophate." ----- Right. But this is chemical sensitivity, or "poisoning", and manifests in a range of symptoms and syndromes in addition to, or instead of, IBS. Another thing to consider is that, at least in my experience, every case of IBS I have seen in young women, those women had a background of extreme dieting and especially laxative abuse. Another contributing factor. -VonKrankenhaus